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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" is happy to live without these troubles of slavery and is what?
(a) Hoping to be freed soon.
(b) Willing to run away.
(c) At peace with God.
(d) Willing to ask her owner to free her.

2. For what does the speaker in “Unwritten” feel that Mary and all others like her must answer?
(a) What they have done to the people they have enslaved and mistreated so terribly.
(b) What they think of slaves and their capabilities.
(c) Freeing their slaves so quickly with no financial support.
(d) Not paying their slaves an honest wage.

3. The speaker of "The Greatest Personal Privation" says in Stanza 1 it is terrible belonging to this woman. Why?
(a) Their owners will not sell them to others.
(b) This woman forces them to work in the fields.
(c) Their owners cannot be trusts, because they have the power to destroy the whole family.
(d) This woman is abusive and does not care for anyone but herself.

4. Who is the character in "Hill Country" revealed to be?
(a) A woodsman.
(b) An angel.
(c) God.
(d) Abraham.

5. What will happen to those, including women and children, who do not follow the orders to leave camp in “I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) They will allowed to stay and rest.
(b) They will be sent away.
(c) They will be shot.
(d) They will be sent to jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a holy person, as mentioned in "Deadly," imagines trembling, what is trembling in fear?

2. In "Garden of Eden," why does the narrator's arm get sore?

3. History in "Ghazal" is described as a ship that is always setting sail where the men on either shore do what?

4. The character in "Hill Country" leaves the stack of worn planks outside where?

5. Who does the speaker in "Ghazal" say has been taught their name?

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